Man from Mars was in Sydney for the entire week and his work shacked him up at the Crowne Plaza, Darling Harbour. Talk about living next door to your work, Man from Mars had to walk half a short block to get to his office, while I had to walk up the road to get to mine. Compared to the normal 6 am start, I luxuriated amongst the sheets until 7:30 pm, snuck mountains of pastries from the breakfast buffet and handed them out amongst my work mates like the the Baker Godmother that I'm not.
Unfortunately, the convenience of living in the city made us lazier and by night we hibernated in the hotel room, venturing only as far as the end of the street to go to a tiny Japanese restaurant that specialised in "half-size" dishes so that we didn't even have to exercise our brain muscles: noodles or teriyaki salmon? Why not both!
All this easy living caught up with us and by Friday we were pining for some home cooked food. We swung by my house, ate some genuine Korean courtesy of my mum and were mildly irritated by the screechy tones of the narrator on Escape to the Country, an informative, if not slug-paced show on 7Two about old English couples who have decided to make the seachange to the country. Did you know that in some of those countryside towns, you can get massive houses with quirky medieval features and rolling hills for your backyard-- all for 300,000 pounds? Bargainables!
Unfortunately, the convenience of living in the city made us lazier and by night we hibernated in the hotel room, venturing only as far as the end of the street to go to a tiny Japanese restaurant that specialised in "half-size" dishes so that we didn't even have to exercise our brain muscles: noodles or teriyaki salmon? Why not both!
All this easy living caught up with us and by Friday we were pining for some home cooked food. We swung by my house, ate some genuine Korean courtesy of my mum and were mildly irritated by the screechy tones of the narrator on Escape to the Country, an informative, if not slug-paced show on 7Two about old English couples who have decided to make the seachange to the country. Did you know that in some of those countryside towns, you can get massive houses with quirky medieval features and rolling hills for your backyard-- all for 300,000 pounds? Bargainables!
On Saturday we drove to Manly (pic above), copped some fabulous Australian sunshine, a massive Canadian breakfast and then drove to Chatswood to watch Inception. What an awesome movie. Although I think it drained Man from Mars and I of a couple of hundred brain cells and buckets of sense because halfway through the drive home Man from Mars accidentally told me that:
"you tend to get too close to the left side of the lane when you drive" and me in my hyper night blinded state shouted:
No I don't! It's just because it's dark and I can't see!
Anyway, that marked the start of a pretty circular argument- me preaching about the importance of Man from Mars picking his words carefully and him telling me to stop putting words in his mouth. Who me? We pretended to ignore each other for the rest of the night and Man from Mars made us make up this morning by offering a conciliatory hug. I returned the hug grudgingly and he laughed.
No I don't! It's just because it's dark and I can't see!
Anyway, that marked the start of a pretty circular argument- me preaching about the importance of Man from Mars picking his words carefully and him telling me to stop putting words in his mouth. Who me? We pretended to ignore each other for the rest of the night and Man from Mars made us make up this morning by offering a conciliatory hug. I returned the hug grudgingly and he laughed.
This morning we trained it in to the city and he took a bus to the airport. I popped into work and was so chuffed because there on my desk was a sweet little package from Miss CalmFarm. In the past couple of weeks we've been exchanging stories about what our passion is, how we can combine our passion with work-- is it even possible? Anyway, always the thoughtful, classy one, she got me "The Element- How Finding your Passion Changes Everything" by Sir Ken Robinson.
I'm so excited to read it. You guys should too- I'm a couple of chapters in and it's riveting stuff.
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